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Great films: Every Three-Star Film Ever Reviewed in Halliwell's Film Guides

The British film critic Leslie Halliwell (1929-1989) was one of the most devoted to his craft, and was notorious as one of the harshest, particularly of films from the 70's and 80's. Being Canadian and surrounded by film review guides that are quite American-centered and Hollywood-centric, I was refreshed, years ago, to find a guide that reviewed more films of British, European and World cinema that guides I had previously been able to find had, at the very best, only scratched the surface of. Now, in looking at the Wikipedia page about his life, I see that all of his Top Ten movies (topped by 'Citizen Kane') were from 1931-1946, probably MY favourite period of cinema as well. But be…

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  • Beowulf
  • The Bourne Ultimatum
  • Control
  • The Counterfeiters
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  • The Duchess of Langeais
  • Enchanted
  • 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  • Ghosts of Cité Soleil
  • Gone Baby Gone
  • Honeydripper
  • I for India
  • I'm Not There
  • In the Shadow of the Moon
  • In the Valley of Elah
  • P2
  • Persepolis
  • Ratatouille
  • [REC]
  • The Savages
  • Son of Rambow
  • Taxi to the Dark Side
  • The Right of the Weakest
  • The Singer
  • The Witnesses
  • Still Life
  • About Schmidt
  • The Accidental Tourist
  • Ace in the Hole
  • Across 110th Street
  • Adaptation.
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • The African Queen
  • In the Realm of the Senses
  • Airplane!
  • Alexander's Ragtime Band
  • Alias Nick Beal
  • Alice
  • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
  • All That Jazz
  • All the King's Men
  • Amadeus
  • The Lovers
  • Amarcord
  • American Graffiti
  • An American Werewolf in London
  • Amores Perros
  • And Then There Were None
  • Angels with Dirty Faces
  • Angi Vera
  • Animal Crackers
  • Two English Girls
  • Antonia's Line
  • The Apartment
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Days and Nights in the Forest
  • L'Argent
  • Arise, My Love
  • Army of Shadows
  • Around the World in Eighty Days
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • As Good as It Gets
  • The Asphalt Jungle
  • The Assault
  • Assault on Precinct 13
  • The Asthenic Syndrome
  • L'Atalante
  • Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
  • Atlantic City
  • In the Eyes of the World
  • The Aviator
  • L'Avventura
  • The Awful Truth
  • Babe
  • Babel
  • Bachelor Mother
  • The Bachelor Party
  • Back to the Future
  • Bad Company
  • Bagdad Cafe
  • Bay of Angels
  • La Balance
  • Ballad of a Soldier
  • Ballets Russes
  • Barefaced Flatfoot
  • Barton Fink
  • Batman Begins
  • Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
  • Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain
  • The Beauty of the Devil
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Bed and Board
  • The Bedford Incident
  • Before the Rain
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
  • Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
  • Best Boy
  • The Best Intentions